http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1969/22/section/7Adoption (Hague Convention) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969An Act to make provision for extending the powers of the court to make orders with respect to the adoption of children; for enabling effect to be given in Northern Ireland to adoptions effected in other countries and to determinations of authorities in other countries with respect to adoptions; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2020-03-10Expert Participation2020-01-13 Adoption (Hague Convention) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969ActAdoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022Sch. 5Sch. 4 para. 8s. 160(1) 71Any application for an order under section 6 or a decision under section 6(3)( b) shall be made in the prescribed manner and within such period, if any, as may be prescribed.2No application shall be made under subsection (1) or (2) of section 6 … unless immediately before the application is made the person adopted or the adopter resides in Northern Ireland or, as the case may be, both adopters reside there.3In deciding in pursuance of section 6 whether such an authority as is mentioned in section 5(1) was competent to entertain a particular case, the court shall be bound by any finding of fact made by the authority and stated by the authority to be so made for the purpose of determining whether the authority was competent to entertain the case.4In section 6 and this section—“determination” means such a determination as is mentioned in section 5(1);“notified provision” means a provision specified in an order made under section 54(4) of the Adoption Act 1976; and“relevant time” means the time when the adoption in question purported to take effect under the law of the country in which it purports to have been effected.1978 c.221995 NI 2